I've been trying to figure out why starting Emacs 21 on a remote machine
seems so painful. It is generating reams of network traffic that apparently
has nothing to do with graphics. I'm beginning to think that from the

I upgraded our internal machines from 20.7 to 21.2 recently. Most of our
development machines are on the other end of a 6 mbit link, and boy is
emacs 21.2 slooooooow. A couple developers abandoned it for the older version.
It works fine across our local 100 mbit network, so it does look to me like
21.2 is a network hog.
Joe Buehler